Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Hard crash leaves Zak Best last at Philip Island

Wednesday 10 August 2022

Hard crash leaves Zak Best last at Philip Island

Zak Best picked up the 1^st last-place finish of his eSeries All-Stars campaign in the fourth race at Philip Island when he was involved in a single car crash that ended his race after 5 of the race’s 15 laps.

Zak Best in the #98 BP Ultimate Ford started in the rear, but Jayden Ojeda in the #2 NTI/Mobil 1 Holden fell to the rear, then Matt Chada in the #33 Swytfx Holden fell to last.

Cameron Crick in the #38 Pizza Hut Holden went off and fell to last.

By Lap 5 Aaron Borg in the #14 Middy's Electrical Holden had pitted and fallen to last, then Matt Chada in the #33 Swyftx Holden had fallen behind Borg.

A crash on Lap 7 at Siberia caused Zak Best in the #98 BP Ultimate Ford to fall to last, out of the race.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Matt Chada in the #33 Swyftx Holden, Aaron Borg in the #14 Middy's Electrical Holden flew off at Turn 1 on Lap 12 and wound up a lap down, Jake Kostecki in the #56 Tradie Ford and Jackson Walls in the #20 Nulon Holden

The Bottom Five

Zak Best	5 Laps	Crash
Matt Chada	14 Laps	Running
Aaron Borg	14 Laps	Running
Jake Kostecki	15 Laps	Running
Jackson Walls	15 Laps	Running

All-Star championship

Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Matt McLean	2	3	3
Zak Best	1	3	3
Jack LeBrocq	1	2	2
Jake Kostecki	1	1	1
Cameron Crick	0	2	2
Cooper Murray	0	1	1
Blake Purdie	0	1	1
Aaron Borg	0	1	1
Jayden Ojeda	0	0	3
Clay Richards	0	0	3
Thomas Randle	0	0	1
Thomas Maxwell	0	0	1
Jordan Boys	0	0	1`
Jordan Boys	0	0	1`
Jackson Walls	0	0	1

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How Juniorgeneric defines a Last-Place finisher

Australian V8 LASTCAR'S Official Definition of a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF)

For the purposes of the Australian V8 LASTCAR championship rankings and statistics, a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF) is a driver(s) who, after qualifying for a V8 Supercars Championship Points-Paying race, the result must be confirmed from official sources, or unofficial sources failing that. Only one driver (or two in a endurance race) can be classified as the LPF for that race.

Meeting those requirements, the LPF can be any driver classified as such for any reason, including, but not limited to.
1) A "did not start" although it should be noted that there is a difference between my definition of "did not start" and Brock Beard's definition of "Did not Start".
For example, in Bathurst 2015 Chazz Mostert and Cameron Waters' #6 Pepsi Max Ford had a huge accident during practice that injured Mostert and all but wrote off the car. Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last. Under Brock Beard's definition, however, Mostert and Waters would have finished last instead of David Wall and Chris Pither.
2) An entrant who encounters an event once the race has started which prevents the driver(s) from finishing ahead of any other qualified entrants, including both DNFs and drivers who finish under power but laps down*

*Only when all the cars in the race are running ahead of the LPF

3) A decision to “start and park” the driver’s entry (Extremely rare in V8 Supercars)
(4) a disqualification handed down by V8 Supercars and/or track officials that subsequently classifies the driver(s) in the final position behind the unofficial LPF.

Australian V8 LASTCAR shall not consider the LPF as anything else, including but not limited too
1) Any DNQ's
2) Any driver's who's car withdrew before the race start.
3)The lowest-ranked driver who finishes the race under power (unless all cars finished under power, actually quite common in V8 Supercars)
4) A driver(s) who finished last initially, however post-race disqualifications usurped the spot.
5) A driver(s) who may be catagorised as finishing last for exhibition events (I may bring these back at some point in the near future, I need more accurate numbers for the events before I start them up again)
6) Anything in non-V8 Supercar Main game (again, insufficent historical data)
7) A driver who was running last when the checkered flag fell, however because they greeted the checkered flag but a drive who was in front of them at the end of the race, however was not running at the end of the race. In that instance the driver who doesn't finish the race will fall behind the driver whom is still running at the end of the race.

In the rare event where official results or a preponderance of unofficial results are later updated with more accurate information about who was the LPF for that event, Australian V8 LASTCAR rankings and statistics shall be updated to reflect that change.